I had a teacher who was a great influence on me, when I was in boarding school at Loomis, Jim Wilson. He was my economics teacher and he was also my dorm head. I didn’t know what economics was before I took this course. I was really moved by the course. I was moved by him. That’s probably one of the reasons I chose the field of business.
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Henry R. Kravis
Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
United States · b. 1944
Business and finance
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Henry Kravis is an American financier and philanthropist who co-founded the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in 1976. The firm's 1988 buyout of RJR Nabisco was for many years the largest leveraged acquisition in history.
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And that’s what’s given us the ability to say no. It’s one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment. Even if you’ve done a lot of work, work will never hurt you.
When I went through school, I was in a hurry. I was an economics major as an undergraduate, and I was a finance major in graduate school. I was in a hurry to succeed when I got out in the business world. I’m sorry I didn’t take more courses in the humanities and in history and in the arts.
One person that is my role model is my father. ... He’s a man who taught me something very important. And that was — give back to society what you’ve taken out.
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